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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1936
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Roosevelt and Landon Will Make Final Appeals to Voters By Radio
F.D.R. INVADES In Case You Hadn’t Heard, These Men Are Also Running
- GOP TERRITORY
Demos Guess at GOP Choices
At All Grocery Stores
IN NEW YORK
President Is Extremely Con-
fident On Eve of Na-
tional Election
By United Press.
HYDE PARK. N. Y. Nov 2
President Roosevelt, will close his
campaign for re-election today in
the familiar territory which he
first canvassed a quarter century
ago as a youthful candidate for
the state Senate. He was su-
premely confident of victory at
the polls tomorrow.
Eager to win the support of his
old "neighbors and friends,” the
Chief Executive, in traditional
fashion, chose the rock-ribbed Re-
publican counties in the vicinity
of his Hyde Park home to make
his final appeal to the electorate
This afternoon he will motor
through Dutchess, Ulster and
Orange counties. For four or five
hours he will tour this Republican
territory, as he has on the final
day of other campaigns.
To Speak at PouEhkeepsie
Mr Roosevelt will return to his
William Lemke
The Union party’s candidate
for the presidency is William
Lemke. Born In Albany, Minn.,
Aug. 13, 1878, lie attended North
D. Leigh Colvin
Earl Browder
Norman Thomas
Committee Says Landon Would Select Cabinet |
Headed by Hearst and Morgan
By United Press.
NEW YORK. Nov 2. The Progressive Republican Committee for
Roosevelt contended today that Gov Alf M Landon. If elected, would
select the following cabinet:
Secretary of State, William R * —— ----— - --------
Hearst
Secretary of Treasury, J P.
Morgan
. Secretary of Interior, J. How-
ard Pew of Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture, Bain- |
Secretary: of War, Irenes Du-
Font bridge Colby •
Attorney General, Daniel F Secretary of Commerce, H C
CORRIAD. -*
Postmaster General, John Har-
Uton.
Secretary of Navy, Henry F
DuPont. . 1
' Hopson (utility magnate)
„Secretary of. Labor, Ogden L.
Mills.:
Dakota and Georgetown univer-
sities, II. 1921 he became North
Dakota’s attorney general: He
represented North Dakota in the
1 73rd and 74th € ongresses.
D. Leigh Colvin Is the Prohi-
billon party’s candidate for Pres-
ident, He was born Jan. 28,
1880, In I harleston, O. He at- |
tended Ohio Wesleyan, Califor-
nia, and < Chicago universities.
Earl Browder is candidate for
President on the Communist
ticket. Before his nomination
he served for several years as
home about 3:30 p. m., Fort Worth ...
Time, and afleh resting and dining | :
will drive to Poughkeepsie for a
speech from the balcony of the ‘
Nelson House,
houses the temporary White House 1 |
offices.
Prominent for many years in
promibition and temperance
work.
secretary of the Communist
party of America. He was born
May,20, 1891, in Wichita, Kan.,
the son of a school teacher.
Norman Thomas’ 1936 cam-
paign was his third consecutive
bid for the presidency as the |
Socialist party nominee. He
had twice been nominated for
mayor of New York, and once
for governor of New York state.
He was born Nov. 20, 1884, in
Marion, O.
A Discrepancy?
Farley and Hamilton
Differ Decidedly
On Predictions,
fly United Press. *
NEW YORK. Nov 2 James
A Farley conceded two states
Maine and Vermont- to Gov. Al
fil'd M Langen today
He predicted President Roose
velt would be re-elected “by a
landslide."
The committee said the men
would have to be considered by i
Landon in order of their contribu-
| tions, talents and aspirations "
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People Don’t Vote for Candidates But for Electors 7
Representing States Precinct Voting Places to
speak in Poughkeepsie was taken
as an indication he is hopeful of
carving a healthy slice of the vote .
of that city which usually returns —:--------
* Eime itorfainigThe Mepuggoonevest TTTHE people do not vote directly for the candidates for Presi-
read with Interest some of the . dent and Vice President. They vote for electors, who in
hundreds of telegrams that con- turn cast their ballots for the candidates. Each state has as
tinued to pour into Hyde Park many electors as it had U. S. Senators and Representatives,
praising his hard-hitting speech "
Saturday night in Madison Square
Garden.
They vote for electors, who in
Texas has 23. Even if the popular vote in a state were 10 to 1
for a candidacy it would not get him Any more votes than a
Individuals and groups from all bare popular majority...
ato tree the prwt There are 531 electoral votes. The candidates getting 266
play an important part in the out- or more is elected. In 1932, the last presidential election, Her-
come tomorrow. bert Hoover carried only six state, Connecticut, Delaware,
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and" Pennsylvania, which gave
him 59 electoral votes. - .
On Radio Program
The President will make his last
campaign speech at 10:45 o’clock
tonight on a national hook-up. In
the little study that serves as his
executive office, he will speak for
15 minutes, on an hour’s program
arranged by the Democratic Na-
tional Committee.
The populous states have more electoral votes. New York’s
47, Pennsylvania’s 36, and Ohio’s 26 total 109 electoral votes
in an area no larger than Texas. '
These three states have been regarded as the battleground
of the 1936 campaign. The way these big chunks of electoral
Tomorrow, election day, he will
spend with his family. Some time | r . . ran .
In the forenoon he will go to the So that you may follow the 1936 election returns with more
polling booths, set up at the while interest, we give below, the states, their electoral votes, and
and green painted town hall in the the way they voted in 1932:
sleepy village of Hyde Park. There,
vots fall will determine the winner, pre-election forecasts said.
as on past occasions, he will cast
his ballot and return to his home | Alabama
to await returns. : Am
Party leaders have assured himnR ’
that greater New York’ alone Arkansas
would return a majority in excess i California
STATE-
Electoral
Votes
Open at 7 A. M.: Light
Turnout Expected
(Starts on Page 1)
"Roosevelt is bound to win in Tex-
as anyway.’ <
Ballot Huge This Year
Sheriff A Jt. Carter, member
of the county general election
board with County—Clerk Mrs.
Happy Shelton and County Judge
Emmett Moore, today sent his
deputies out with the last of the
ballot boxes. Many of them were
distributed last Saturday Mrs
Shelton announced that tables and
chairs had been provided in all
city boxes. With the boxes went
other voting supplies, including
5500 pounds of ballots. ’
BOTH CANDIDATES
ON AIR TONIGHT
By UNITED PRESS ,
The following political
ratio “pLeches are scheduled
| j for today, all times listed be. |
ing in Fort Worth time.
8:30 to 9:00 P. M Wil-
liam Lemke, speaking from
New York over NBC-Blue I
Meanwhile in Chicago, John
Hamilton, chairman of the Re-
| publican National Committee, “un- |
hesitatingly" forecast the election 1
of Gov. Landon
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of 1,000,000, and that Pennsylvania Colorado
would vole him in by at least______
• 200,000. Connecticut
1 Delaware
| Florida .;
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Landon Claims He Has
‘New Deal On Ropes’
Ry United Press.
TOPEKA, Nov..2. Gov. Alf M. Indiana
Landon worked on his final ap-r
peal, to the voters today. Telling owa ■ *:‘‘‘*
friends his final swing through the Kansas .....
. East and Midwest had the New Kentucky ...
Deal "on the ropes," the Repub- Louisiana
lican nominee was back in his ‘‘‘
Prairie State capital privately ex-Maine ‘*At
pressing confidence that tomor- Maryland : .
row would witness a Republican Massachusetts
victory at the polls 1
His final word will be A brief
radio talk from his study tonight.
Eastern party leaders urged him | Mississippi .
to take one more thrust at the Missouri ,,.
Roosevelt Administration in the Montana
final hours of the campaign, sug-
gesting that he counter-attack
President Roosevelt’s final speech Nevada .......
in Madison Square Garden Satur- New Hampshire
day night.
Say Challenge.Asnwered
Recalling that Gov. Landon had
Michigan
|Minnesota ,
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Mexico......
! New York ......
North Carolina ...
North Dakota ....
Ohio ............
Oklahoma ........
Oregon ..........
ized money If re-elected. That Pennsylvania
declaration, they contended, meant | Rhode Tatana
that he intends to revive the N.R A Ehode Island .....
or some similar governmental ma- South Carolina ...
chinery which Republican leaders South Dakota.....:
have denounced as an unconstitu- Tennessee
tional attempt to end American
business enterprise and Initiative.
Gov. Landon will speak for 15
minutes on a Republican radio
-ally at 9 p. m. (Fort Worth time),
featuring brief addresses by foes
of the New Deal, including one by
the vice presidential nominee,
Frank Knox. *
challenged Mr. Roosevelt to "tell
us where you stand" on important
issues, they advised the Repub-
lican nominee that they considered
the President had answered that
challenge by declaring that it was
his intention to “master” organ-
May Ignore Suggestions
It had been understood that the
Kansas governor would confine his.
remarks to an appeal for voters
to go to the polls. There was no
definite indication that he would
follow the suggestions of the east-
ern Republican leaders in his ra-
TEXAS .......
Utah .........
Vermont .....
Virginia ......
Washington ...
West Virginia .
Wisconsin .....
Wyoming .....
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TOTAL
Ailmlnistration with trying to
"run from its record instead of on
it."
1932 Popular Vote
Roosevelt .Hoover
207,910
, 79,264
• 189,602
1,324,157
250,877
281,632..
54,319
206,307
234,118
109,479
1,882,304
862,054
598,019
424,204
580,574
249,418
—- 128,907
314,314
800,148
871,700
600,806
140,168
1,025,406
127,286
359,082
’ 28,756
-100,680
806,630
• 95,089
2,534,959
497,566
178,350
1,301,695
516,468
213,871
1,295,948
146,604
102,347
183,515
259,817
760,348
116,750
56,266
203,979
353,260
405,124
707.410
54,370
34,675
36,104
28,467
847,902
189,617
288,420
57,073
69,170
19,863
71,312
1,432,756
677,184
414,433
349,498
394,716
.18,853
166,631
184,184
736,959
739,894
363,959
5,180
564,713
78,078
201,177
12,674
103,629
* 775,684
54,217
1,937,963
208,344
71.772
1,227,679
188,165
• 136,019
1,453,540
115,266
1.978
99.212
126,806
, 97,959
84,795
78,984
89,637
208,645
330,731
347,741
39,583
531 22.821.857
15,761,841
.1 Network
9 to 10:00 P M Gov. Al-
fred' M Landon, speaking
from Topeka, Kan., over
NBC-Red and CBS Net-
works. 9 to 9:45 on Mutual
Network.
10 to 11 President Roose-
velt, speaking from Hyde :
Park, over NBC Blue and
Red Networks and over CBS
and Mutual Networks
9:45 to . 10 P. M Earl
Browder, speaking from Mad-
ison Square Garden over
NBC-Blue Network ’
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Mutual Network.
NEW
The voting sheets which will be
handed citizens tomorrow will be
larger than a newspaper page,
measuring 16 by 24 inches. Eight
columns are provided for voting on
candidates — Six of them listing
tickets for Democrats, Republi-
cans. Socialists, Communists, Pro-
hibitionists and Unionists. The
seventh and eighth for write-in
votes and independents.
At the bottom, of the ballot are th a . . , „ .
listed the six proposed amend-ourb the. Rtev-.Cheries. E. Cough:
ments to the constitution.
The following changes will be
up for consideration:
1. Providing for a state dis-
pensary or monopoly for sale of
distilled liquors.
2. Permitting establishment of
a retirement system for teachers
in public schools and state col-
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FATHER COUGHLIN
By United Press.
DETROIT, Nov. 2. Steps to
Telephone Directory
is closing
leges and universities.
3. Authorizing passage of laws
for payment of workmen’s com-
Pensation insurance to state em-
ployes.
4. Authorizing a state Board of
Pardons and Paroles
lin’s political activities probably
will be taken today or tomorrow,
by Bishop Michael Gallagher.
This was indicated by the bishop
following Father Coughlin s public
apology in New York Saturday
night for describing President
Roosevelt as a "liar and betrayer"
several weeks ago.
5. increasing salaries for the
governor, attorney general, comp-
troller, treasurer, land commis-
sioner and secretary of state.
6. Limiting county representa-
tion In. the legislature to seven,
except where population amounts
to more than 700,000 in which
case ‘ the county may have one
additional representative for each
100,000 additional citizens.
Tabulate Tuesday Night
Voters do not cast their ballots
the
for "Roosevelt" or "Landon,” but
for candidates for the national
"electoral college," which chooses
the president Electors are listed
on the ballot according to party
affiliation. A ballot marked for
the 23 Democratic candidates for
the electoral college from Texas
will be a vote for Roosevelt One
marked for the 23 Republican
electoral candidates will be a vote
for Landon.
Tabulation of county returns
tomorrow night will be kt the
courthouse under the direction of
Mrs Shelton, county clerk. Mrs
Shelton asked election judges to
provide her with return* as quick,
ly as possible ’
• LAST WEEK-
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night for his home town of In-
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The governor and Mrs Landon
will vote early in the Main St.
garage that is their precinct poll-
ing place in Independence and re-
turn to Topeka to await election
returns.
But the Republican nominee
does not believe that the result of
the presidential election will be
known by the time he goes to bed
’ tomorrow night. He is of the opin-
ion that the deciding factor in the
balloting wilt he the farm vote and
that it will be slow in coming In.
so that It probably will b e Wed-
.nesday morning before its full
1 force is felt In the returns.
Landon Is Fatigued
Gov. Landon appeared fatigued
but in good physical condition at
the conclusion of his 20,000-mile
campaign ending in St. Louis Sat-
urday night when he denounced
the New Deal for an erratic pro-
gram and a record of broken
promises which, he said, had pre-
vented real recovery in the United
States. He charged the Roosevelt
The Republican radio program
tonight, switching around the
country to a dozen cities, will put
a final touch on the 1936 G. O. P.
campaign.
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